A novel haze image steganography method via cover-source switching |
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Affiliation: | 1. National Engineering Research Center for Multimedia Software, School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Multimedia and Network Communication Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;3. Collaborative Innovation Center of Geospatial Technology, Wuhan 430079, China;4. Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan 430070, China;1. Department of Business Administration, Wonkwang University, 460 Iksandae-ro, Iksan, Jeonbuk, South Korea;2. Engineering Research Center on Cloud Computing & Internet of Things and E-commerce Intelligence of Fujian Universities Quanzhou Normal University, No. 398, Donghai Street, Fengze District, Quanzhou 362000, China;3. School of Economics and Management, Xinyu University, No. 2666, Yangguang Street, Xinyu 338004, China |
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Abstract: | In realistic outdoor scenarios, image sensors tend to suffer from various weather conditions (e.g., haze, rain, etc.),which make the images of the same scene taken at different times may be different. Therefore, one should be able to securely embed secret messages into these images by making use of the variations of the weather effects. Inspired by some recent natural steganography algorithms, this paper presents a novel haze image steganography method, which embeds messages through adjusting the weather effects of an input haze image, making it resemble the same image captured under another weather condition. The proposed steganography method consists of three parts: (1) model parameter estimation of the input haze image, (2) haze effects adjustment according to the atmospheric scattering model, (3) message embedding using the floating-point adjusted haze image. 10,000 haze images captured under different haze conditions in various scenarios were used to test the proposed steganography algorithm. The experimental results show that the proposed steganography algorithm is more secure than S-UNIWARD and HILL for steganalyzers who only have raw haze images. |
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Keywords: | Steganography Haze image Natural steganography UNIWARD Steganalysis |
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